“The Way to the Spring is a riveting and powerful work . . . . Readers near and far who seek greater understanding of how Palestinians live—and the violence they endure—are well served by Ehrenreich’s book.” —Haaretz “Ehrenreich's haunting, poignant and memorable stories add up to a weighty contribution to the Palestinian side of the scales of history.” —New York Times Book Review “An impassioned and humane story.” —O Magazine From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkable New York Times Magazine cover story. Now comes the powerful new work that has always been his ultimate goal, The Way to the Spring. We are familiar with brave journalists who travel to bleak or war-torn places on a mission to listen and understand, to gather the stories of people suffering from extremes of oppression and want: Katherine Boo, Ryszard Kapuściński, Ted Conover, and Philip Gourevitch among them. Palestine is, by any measure, whatever one's politics, one such place. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints, and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, this is a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine. In a great act of bravery, empathy and understanding, Ben Ehrenreich, by placing us in the footsteps of ordinary Palestinians and telling their story with surpassing literary power and grace, makes it impossible for us to turn away.
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
This audacious reimagining of The Odyssey finds Penny home alone while Payne, a modern-day Odysseus, gallivants around the world on battleships and attack helicopters, waging wars of conquest. A drinking, drugging crew of ne'er-do-well squatters surrounds Penny, eager for her attention. Even their most eyebrow-raising exploits can't distract her, though, as she angrily pines for Payne. But when a mysterious man with suspicious origins arrives on the scene, the suitors' precarious pecking order falls to pieces in the glow of Penny's newly ignited ardor. Brutal, playful, sexy, and subversive, The Suitors is a classic of its own kind.
``Gandhi saw progress in very much the same way that Rabindranath Tagore explained it to Westerners. The West sees progress mainly in material terms-something visual and concrete: once one travelled in horse drawn carriages, now one can fly in planes. But, as Tagore pointed out, the true Eastern mind doesn't see the outward signs. A tree which stands in one place for years also progresses-it is constantly revewing itself but the changes are taking place inside it, unseen. So also it is with man: he truly progresses only when he makes the necessary adjustments within himself-the `know thyself' of Socrates''. This is how the author explains what happened to him. His early life was highly influenced by the western style education he received in Christian boarding schools in India and later in England. He became part of the western concept of progress going for the outer gloss. But Jew-baiting at school and racial discrimination in England forced him back to his Jewish and Indian roots. He made the correction in his inner life while living in a tent in the Negev desert where he wrote this book. From being an admirer of Churchill, be become a follower of Gandhi. He argues in this book that non-violence is the only solution to the crisis in the Middle East.
This timely book raises questions as to how faith is put into action and calls on Christians everywhere to promote justice and righteousness in order to change the world, to create life on earth as it is in heaven.
The Book of Ephraim is totally contrary to everything that has been taught through the years. Its pivotal position is that of the gross misunderstanding of what the Bible is trying to impart to the world and the huge blasphemy that has been perpetrated by those who maintain the incorrect teaching of the Almighty, of Yeshua (Christ) and of the original thirteen tribes of the Ancient House of Israel. Yahoshuah recalls how each chapter seemed to just hang in front of his mind's eye as he merely wrote the words on to paper. "There was at no time any effort to think about what next to write. The Book of Ephraim wrote itself." Mystical in nature, the Book of Ephraim chronicles the development of the tribes and follows the progressive movement through the pages of the Bible until this special group of people are destroyed and divinely curse by Yahovah, the creator and sustainer of ancient Israel. The book traces and clearly shows that there is only one group of people throughout all history that could even remotely be identified with the lost sheep of the House of Israel. Controversial and shocking, The Book of Ephraim will leave you enthralled.
There is a colloquialism amongst us that is used to describe a prominent person, which lacks substance, personality or ability. That person is referred to as an "empty suit." A person that moves in a wrong identity or sins, falls "shortof the glory of God" and lacks weight and substance. What happens when man lives without glory? In this book by my dear brother, coworker and friend, Rabbi Yisrael Ben Avraham, goes through a thorough presentation as to how the empty suit can be filled to the standard of glory. Emulating the Divine Designer this godly author charts a path in which man can recover and reposition himself to Father's original intention regaining our realm of substance, personality and ability. Every person seeking to fulfill his divine task of manifesting that standard should read this book and think twice before doing things that sells us short of it. I highly recommend this read! Saul L. Avila Christian Community Center "The standard of glory is now in the tabernacle of men's heart" Yisrael Ben Avraham On rare occasions do I read a unique book like "The Standard is Glory." Rabbi Yisrael has done an incredible job of painting a picture of glory, spiritual systems and protocols critical to the development of the sons of God. He challenges the reader to examine biblical principles from a Hebraic perspective, which opens the door for both education and revelation. The text presents a new fundamental understanding that "glory is the power to facilitate dominion." I encourage readers, novice and seasoned alike, to engage in what is presented and allow it to transform you inside and out. Dr. Sharon R. Nesbitt Dominion World Outreach Ministries "His is all I am..". a son...Yisrael Ben Avraham
Ben Burgis has written a clarifying, humorous and sharp as hell wake up call for the left, and political culture at large. Read this book...'Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show Between the decline of the labor movement, the aftershocks of the falls of so-called "actually existing socialism," and the long exile of even social democrats from the levers of real power, we have gotten far too used to thinking of leftism as a performative exercise in expressing our political commitments rather than a serious effort to achieve left-wing goals in the real world. Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns calls for a smarter, funnier, more strategic left.
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